Muftiate treats Brinikh's allegations about theft of Kadyrov's sheep as insulting

The head of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of the Krasnodar Territory and Adygea has sent an application to law enforcement bodies asking to bring the ecologist Valery Brinikh to responsibility for insulting the believers’ feelings. As Mr Brinikh himself found out during his interrogation at the Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE), the Muftiate saw an insult in his publications about the theft of the sheep, sacrificed by Ramzan Kadyrov to poor people in Adygea.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on December 1, 2016, Valery Brinikh, the Chairman of the All-Russian Society for Environmental Protection in Adygea, sent an application to the police, where he asked to check the information that some of the sheep sent to Adygea for the Kurban Bayram holiday by Ramzan Kadyrov's order had not reached the poor people. The sheep were stolen by local bureaucrats, Valery Brinikh asserted.

On April 7, he was summoned to the above CCE for questioning; and it turned out there that Askarbiy Kardanov, the Mufti of the KrasnodarTerritory and Adygea, saw an insult to the religious feelings of Muslims in Mr Brinikh's publications about the theft of sacrificial sheep. Mr Kardanov filed an application to law enforcement bodies asking to hold Valery Brinikh accountable.

"This is an attempt to turn the case to extremism, although there were no insults in my publications. On the contrary, I stand for the preservation of this rite, and for the purity of thoughts of those, who distribute the animals. I condemn not the rite itself and not the religion, but I blame those, who were possibly involved in the theft of sheep," Valery Brinikh told the "Caucasian Knot” correspondent.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.